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software

Aug 12, 2026

YouTube / OpenAI

OpenAI and partners push Agent Plugins as a portable standard for AI agents

A standard for packaging agent skills OpenAI published an official video introducing Agent Plugins, an open standard meant to address a growing problem in the AI-agent ecosystem: the same extension, skill or tool configuration often has to be reshaped for each product. The...

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security

Aug 11, 2026

OpenAI

OpenAI expands Daybreak and introduces GPT-5.6-Cyber for authorized cyber defense

OpenAI expanded Daybreak, its AI cybersecurity defense program, and introduced GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized model for defensive work and authorized security testing. The company published the announcement on August 10 through its official feed and tied it to a direct message:...

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software

Aug 10, 2026

Hugging Face Blog

Meta pushes Muse Glimmer into local multimodal AI agents

Muse Glimmer arrived as a clear signal of where part of the AI market is moving: models that can operate agents, understand images and text, and run locally, not only inside closed cloud services. According to Hugging Face’s technical post, the model was published on August...

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security

Aug 09, 2026

Varonis Threat Labs

RovoBlast shows how one link could turn Atlassian Rovo into a data-leak path

RovoBlast shows how one link could turn Atlassian Rovo into a data-leak path Varonis Threat Labs disclosed RovoBlast, a flaw in Atlassian Rovo that allowed a crafted link to place attacker instructions inside a trusted AI-assistant session. According to the report, the attack...

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hardware

Aug 08, 2026

NVIDIA Blog

Firebird launches an AI factory in Armenia with NVIDIA and Dell

Firebird launches an AI factory in Armenia with NVIDIA and Dell Firebird has opened a new AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia, built on NVIDIA and Dell Technologies infrastructure, adding another site to the global race to place AI compute outside the traditional cloud centers....

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security

Aug 07, 2026

OpenAI

OpenAI slows internal work on Astra over possible critical cyber capability

OpenAI said Friday that recent internal evaluations of Astra, an unreleased upcoming model, showed enough progress in agentic coding and cybersecurity that the company cannot rule out “critical cyber capabilities” under its Preparedness Framework. While testing continues,...

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software

Aug 07, 2026

GitHub Changelog

GitHub adds Kimi K3 to Copilot, accelerating open-weight competition in coding models

GitHub has begun adding Kimi K3, Moonshot AI’s open-weight model, as an option inside GitHub Copilot. This is more than another item in a model picker: it shows how coding assistants are becoming routing platforms where proprietary, open-weight and specialized models can...

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security

Aug 06, 2026

The Hacker News

AWS, Google and Vercel patch agent flaws that could trigger tools without model authorization

The Hacker News reported on August 6 a notable warning for teams building AI agents: AWS, Google and Vercel have patched separate flaws that shared the same risk pattern. Data or requests shaped like tool calls could reach an agent’s tools without valid authorization from a...

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security

Aug 05, 2026

Anthropic

Anthropic acknowledges three real incidents in Claude cybersecurity tests

Anthropic acknowledges three real incidents in Claude cybersecurity tests Anthropic has published an internal review of its cybersecurity evaluations and said it found three incidents in which Claude models reached real systems during tests that were supposed to run in...

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healthcare

Aug 04, 2026

MIT News

MIT: medical AI assistance can guide experts and mislead beginners

MIT: medical AI assistance can guide experts and mislead beginners A new study published in Nature Medicine and covered by MIT News warns that medical artificial intelligence assistance does not affect every user in the same way. In dermatology diagnosis tests, AI...

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robotics

Aug 01, 2026

Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind brings Gemini Robotics 2 to robots with whole-body control and collaboration

Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2, a family of robotics models aimed at whole-body control, dexterous manipulation and multi-robot collaboration. The article is based on Google DeepMind's official announcement, Google's Gemini Robotics ER 2 post, the official...

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software

Jul 18, 2026

Federal Reserve Board

Fed researchers map how to measure whether AI is transforming the economy

Fed researchers map how to measure whether AI is transforming the economy Three Federal Reserve researchers have published a guide to public indicators that can separate the AI investment boom from a broad economic transformation. Their reading is cautious: capabilities,...

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software

Jul 18, 2026

Google

Google expands AI Mode with optional connections to everyday apps

Google expands AI Mode with optional connections to everyday apps Google has begun rolling out optional connections between AI Mode in Search and services such as Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music in the United States. The update moves conversational search from answering...

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software

Jul 17, 2026

China Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Twenty-nine countries create an intergovernmental organization for AI cooperation and governance

Twenty-nine countries create an intergovernmental organization for AI cooperation and governance Representatives of 29 countries signed an agreement in Shanghai creating the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization. The new body is intended to coordinate...

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software

Jul 17, 2026

Moonshot AI / Kimi

Moonshot unveils Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model for agents and coding

Moonshot unveils Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model for agents and coding Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3, a large-scale model the company is positioning for programming, knowledge work and parallel agent tasks. The release intensifies competition between Chinese and U.S....

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